the smoothness of hot press paper

Completely smooth ice-like flow with a pen. Delightful!

alkyd oils

Playing with these just to try them out. I'd heard they dry faster than regular oils. I liked them fine, didn't feel any particular difference in the way they flow, mix or dry. I didn't use any alkyd medium, which would have made them dry faster yet. On canvas board

bear behind a bush

It's an abstract, of palette scrapings. But when I saw the scan, I saw a bear behind a large bush. It's human to look at any collection of marks and not see a pattern that creates an object. Decoding the world around us, even if we're wrong about the message we get. Oils on canvas.

sunsetlike, I guess

It's actually palette leavings scraped on to an 8x10 canvas board.

scraped palette abstract

After mixing a lot of paint to create various experimental shades, I used a palette knife to spread and scrape them into a linear abstract.

Pure color is such fun!

Oil on canvas board.

a spring feeling

Paint scrapings and stamping. Acrylic on 90# paper.

muted palette

Filling a page with subtle colors, for once. Playing with stamping and stencil.

Acrylic and ink in the Handbook journal.

5 balls

An abstract inspired by a similar (but MUCH better) design by another artist pictured in a mixed media book by Mary Beth Shaw.

Just playing with a mix of watersoluble crayon, acrylic, ink and pen in the Handbook journal.

a grassy thing

This may be just a background, haven't decided yet.

Acrylic on 140# paper.

heartlike abstract

Not created as a heart image, but one emerged (if you look for it), so today is the day to post it.

Multimedia on 140# paper.

blue dots

are in there somewhere.

Acrylic in the journal. Scan is dark, unfortunately.

collage with hearts

I pasted thin text pages over a journal page, painted, scratched away, then stamped and stenciled with a heart cutout.

It's shiny with iridescent gold paint.

don't have a name for this one

And then there's actual painting on canvas. An abstract on 18" stretched canvas. The photo from my phone doesn't catch all the subtlties of color, but you get the idea.

Acrylics.

splotching and dabbing

Just making a colorful page in the journal. Amid pages of writing, these pop out and make me smile.

Acrylics.

fill the pages

With word(s) and paint!

Acrylic in the journal.

For the day of ones (11/1/11)

Acrylics and stamping, in the journal.

warping again

Using the grow and shrink elements of Gimp's warp filter to make the lines flow differently, changing shapes of the color patches.

Acrylics and stamping in the journal.

growing roses

I had collaged these dark roses onto the page, scanned the piece, and it needed something more. Instead of going back to the original, I "grew" the roses with the warping filter in Gimp. Better!

Acrylics in the journal.

the webby stamp

Stamping with acrylic paint.

dots and smears

That stencil again, plus swipes from a stamp pad.

In the journal.